one of our friends, steven moore, i heard, had this analogy. gee, this is a great deal. you cover an additional 30 million people and you save money. gee, he says, at that rate, we should cover everybody in china. we could really reduce the deficit. well, i think it makes the point. the american people have broken the code here. we're not going to save money by adding more people to the rolls. that may be a good idea. it may be that we should subsidize people, but let's acknowledge the true cost. and that gets back to the amendment of our colleague from alabama here, the amendment that's pending on the floor, he says we've got to stop spending so much so let's do something very modest, let's just put a cap using last year's budget -- i mean, we're not talking about cutting way back, we're not cutting into muscle or bone or anything like that, we're just saying okay, if it was good enough for 2010, let's just stop there, let's have a little hold, let's have a little pause here before we add a whole lot more money to the deficit. you know, the state -- my state of arizona